creators_name: Desai, SR creators_name: Shinagare, SA creators_id: dr.shwetas@gmail.com editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas editors_id: Kakkilaya BS type: journale datestamp: 2010-09-13 03:52:42 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:43 metadata_visibility: show title: Severe Eosinophilic Endometritis Following Diagnostic Curettage ispublished: pub subjects: OJHAS full_text_status: public keywords: Eosinophilic endometritis, curettage abstract: Severe Eosinophilic Endometritis appears after injury from a preoperative diagnostic procedure. It is an unusual and distinctive inflammatory uterine disease process, in response to eosinophil chemotactic substances. We report this case of a 55-year-old lady who developed severe eosinophilic endometritis following a diagnostic curettage. date: 2010-06-30 date_type: published publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences volume: 9 number: 1 publisher: Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1. Miko TL, Lampe LG, Thomazy VA, Molnar P, Endes P. Eosinophilic endomyometritis associated with diagnostic curettage. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 1988;7:162-72. 2. Symmers WC. Systemic pathology. Volume 6- Female reproductive system, 3rd ed. London: Butler and Tanner Ltd. 1991. p 160. 3. Adegboyega PA, Pei Y, McLarty J. Relationship between eosinophils and chronic endometritis. Hum Pathol 2010;41:33-7. 4. Chang F, Anderson S. Clinical and pathological features of eosinophilic oesophagitis: a review. Pathology. 2008;40:3-8. 5. Purello D'Ambrosio F, Ricciardi L, Isola S, Gangemi S, Cilia M, Levanti C. Systemic contact dermatitis to copper-containing IUD. Allergy. 1996;51:658-9. 6. Straumann A, Bauer M, Fischer B, et al. Idiopathic eosinophilic esohapgitis is associated with a T(H)2-type allergic inflammatory response. J Allergy Clin Immunol2001;108:954-61. 7. Ekanem IA, Ekanem AD. Endometrial pathology associated with infertility among Nigerian women. Niger Postgrad Med J. 2006;13:344-7. citation: Desai, SR and Shinagare, SA (2010) Severe Eosinophilic Endometritis Following Diagnostic Curettage. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/6998/1/2010-1-12.pdf